The Struggle History of the Fourteenth Qing Dynasty

But there are more than 300 miners!

The twenty or so people only controlled the three or four hundred people to mine and smelt gold for them only because of the powerful firearms in their hands.

They are also stuck with fresh water and food.

No wonder they can manage these people.

On a desert island, there is no food and no fresh water, and no one can survive.

"Then let's get ready, let's go!" Fourteenth Master was in high spirits.

Wu Ali couldn't help being excited: "Go, go right away."

They went there early the next morning after eating their meals. The sea boat was hidden, and the two frigates they brought went around half the island before they saw the pier.

Compared with the temporary pier they built, this pier is much stronger.

It was built with stones, and the pier is very deep, why did Lord Fourteen know?

Because Master Fourteen saw it!

The water here is very clear, you can see very deep, about ten meters, and you can see the stone-paved boatway below.

Moreover, the wharf here is very large, so it is no problem to transport a thousand catties.

It's not a big deal for a ship to hold eight thousand catties.

The point is, look at what they're packing, if it's gold... that's amazing.

After arriving at the place, Nian Gengyao was already waiting for him.

"It's not bad here, there's a pretty big gold mine." Nian Gengyao obviously gained something: "And they refined 23 taels of gold, because we fought a battle at sea and their entire army was wiped out, so We have collected all the production that has not been transported for more than a year.”

23 million taels of gold!

It's not silver, it's gold.

Gold is hard currency no matter where it is, no matter when it is.

"Not bad, not bad!" The fourteenth master's eyes lit up: "Take out 3 taels and distribute it to the naval officers and soldiers who went to sea this time, and hand over 20 taels to the court. Just make up a whole number."

"This is the amount of money that has been distributed." As a result, Nian Gengyao told the Fourteenth Master very calmly, this is the result of their hands touching it.

It was originally 28 taels of gold, but it was Nian Gengyao who made the decision. They divided 5 taels, and the whole army had it.

"No, the [-] will also be added." The Fourteenth Master said, "It's a little less, which makes people feel sad."

The imperial court has gained so much, it is not good not to share it with others.

"Since this is the case, why not share the 3 taels equally, leaving 1 taels, you take 1 taels alone, the minister, Cao Yong and the lieutenant will share the 1 taels, and the army generals will share the remaining [-] taels equally." Nian Geng Yao said, "Do you think it's okay?"

Although the Fourteenth Master is rich, the 1 taels of gold made him very excited: "Okay!"

Nian Gengyao smiled: "Then let's go and have a look?"

"Yeah!" Master Fourteen nodded happily.

The fourteenth master who shared the money was very happy, and everything he saw was pleasing to the eye.

They walked inside, walked through a road cut out of stone, and went directly to the mine.

This gold mine is in the middle of the island. The mountain is not high. It is an open-pit mine. There are many people here, who seem to be fine, and are queuing up to eat.

Today, they were given seafood porridge for lunch. These miners lived worse than slaves and couldn’t get enough to eat, so they could only eat meat porridge for the first three days, and then steamed buns and stewed sea fish tomorrow.

There were no old and weak women and children, only a few stronger women and a group of old men. Their uniform skin was dark, their bodies were thin, and they had scars on their bodies, all of which were bandaged and treated.

There were traces of shackles on the hands and feet, and they were also smeared with medicine.

A few women were still wearing the navy's spare clothes, and the men were simple, with hurdle vests and trousers, and straw sandals on their feet.

Besides, Master Fourteen did not see any captives.

Nian Gengyao didn't give them the seized items, but put them away.

Wu Ali ran over, greeted a dozen men, and cried, all of them were survivors in his village.

"What a tragedy!" Master Fourteen sighed.

This was the result of Nian Gengyao cleaning up everyone after he called in. If he had just come here, it would have been even more embarrassing for Fourteenth Master.

Nian Gengyao said: "They are already very lucky, those who died are even more miserable."

Although Nian Gengyao was also cold-hearted and had seen many miserable scenes, he also felt a little miserable when he saw these miners, so he took great effort to clean them up so that the fourteenth master would not feel uncomfortable after seeing them.

"Yes." The Fourteenth Master looked at the place: "What's the best place for this broken place?"

Like an open-pit gold mine in a quarry, there are only a few caves. The fences of the caves have been removed, and the miners used to be imprisoned.

There are also a few wooden houses where the foreigners who oversee the work live. From the perspective of the Fourteenth Master, they don't look very good.

Not as cute as the cabin that Nian Gengyao urgently built for him.

Nian Gengyao built a slippery wooden house for them to keep out the wind and rain, and at the same time hung up the tents to prevent everyone from being bitten by mosquitoes.

At the same time, the insect repellent powder was sprinkled around, which also made everyone feel at ease, no longer afraid of snakes and insects getting into the bed in the middle of the night.

Even if their quilt is just a layer of linen sheet.

Nian Gengyao knew that Fourteenth Master liked to be clean, even the latrines were cleaned up here, and he was afraid that Fourteenth Master would feel uncomfortable and dislike him.

Especially the storeroom, even the storeroom where the gold is stored, is actually quite dirty, and it was cleaned up by Nian Gengyao. Although it was a bit incomprehensible, Master Fourteen jumped on it after seeing the gold!

Nian Gengyao felt that it was worth cleaning up.

Even after washing the gold with a lot of clean fresh water.

"A lot of gold, wow hahaha...!" Master Fourteen was crazy with joy.

However, Nian Gengyao ordered 20 taels of gold, boxed it, and sealed it.

The rest was directly distributed to everyone, and then, there were more than 3000 taels of gold left, and the Fourteenth Master decided to distribute it to the miners who were suffering.

The miners did not expect that they could also get gold.

More than ten taels of gold, if exchanged for silver, it would cost 80 taels.

They are all single, they can eat enough for one person, and the whole family is not hungry. At least, this money can allow them to settle down.

"Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord!" This group of people have all experienced hardships and cherish their present life very much.

"Do you have any plans for the future?" Master Fourteen asked them.

"I haven't made up my mind yet, and I have nowhere to go." Wu Ali lowered his head: "I can't go back home, it's all been bombed flat."

"Well, why don't you come with us? We have a temporary station in the Pearl Chain Islands. It was originally a village. Later, it was also attacked by pirates and Spanish galleons. Many people in the village were killed and injured. Only a few women. He and an old village head, and a dozen children stayed, if you go, you can also enrich the population there, and the inner island there is very large, there is a big island city called Pearl City." Fourteenth Master said: "Usually we are not there, and you can settle there. Our fleet comes here occasionally and docks at your place."

"Then I'll discuss it with everyone." Wu Ali didn't immediately agree, but ran to discuss it with someone.

These three 500 people are not all homeless like them.

Some people have a place to return to, and Nian Gengyao planned to send someone to send them back.

The homeless were brought back to the Pearl Chain Islands for resettlement, which was regarded as giving them a place to stay, and they were rescued by the Royal Navy Fleet of the Qing Dynasty. For them, this was a lifesaver.

In the future, when the naval fleet comes here, they can also have a safe foothold.

In addition, there are basically Han people there, and they are stronger in terms of integration.

Nian Gengyao thought so too, and Wu Ali finally said to the Fourteenth Master, "Eighty of us have gone there, and the rest are planning to go home."

"Okay." Fourteenth Master nodded: We will give everyone another three days to recuperate, and we will also send people to send back those who are going back, and the others will recuperate here before loading the gold on board. "

There are many things, and they have to solve them quickly. If so much gold is not brought back, they will worry about it when they sleep.

So, Nian Gengyao sent a frigate to send the people back to their hometowns, the rest of them recuperated, and others packed the gold into boxes.

"They didn't take the gold away, there's so much!" The Fourteenth Master looked at the gold, although it wasn't his, it was still very rare.

"It didn't happen, didn't we wipe them out? I suspect that the people in Coconut Grove Village probably discovered the difference here, which led to the disaster of destroying the village, because it is too close to the Pearl Chain Islands." After a long time The sailing time is not too far at sea.

Almost a neighbor.

"We can't move the gold mine, but we can transport the gold back. By the way, remember this!" Master Fourteen touched his chin: "Tell Lan Jizhong that if he is interested, he can come here to dig for gold."

Nian Gengyao was overjoyed when he heard it: "Success, let him come!"

In fact, it depends on Lan Jizhong's intentions whether to come or not, but telling him that there are gold mines here is also adding confusion to the Westerners.

The more they keep things secret, the more Daqing has to make them public.

The situation in Nanyang is complicated. There are many local tribes and countries. Several places dare to unite to call themselves lonely, and a village dares to call it a country. It is a place with extremely no rules.

The chaotic system and ignorant people's wisdom have left Nanyang with no unified and powerful force, so that it has been like this for hundreds of years, and even a Westerner from afar can occupy the land here as king.

Also enslaved the natives and various survivors and immigrants here.

Five days later, the ship set sail, and they returned to Coconut Grove Village in the Pearl Chain Islands.

This time they came back with a full load, and Lan Jizhong knew that they had seized a lot of gadgets from Westerners, so he bought them with gold.

Nian Gengyao generously told him about the origin of these firearms. Lan Jizhong was brave and quick-witted, but he didn't expect that the gold mine was right next door to his house.

Hearing this news, he couldn't help but be speechless: "You are so courageous, you dare to mine gold next door to me."

They don't say they are feuds, but they are definitely not friendly. Is it contempt for him to mine gold next door so blatantly?

"It's yours now. We just take the gold and leave. You are deeply entrenched here. Just send someone to dig it. It's an open-pit gold mine, and there are mining equipment left by Westerners." Mr. Fourteen Said: "You are rich!"

"But, where can I find someone to mine it? I'm a commoner." Lan Jizhong was worried, he couldn't enslave his own people.

That way you have to push people back.

"Can you use captives?" Nian Gengyao said to the point: "Anyway, captives are either pirates or Westerners."

"That's right!" Lan Jizhong muttered to himself, "If I had known, I wouldn't have buried those prisoners alive."

The Fourteenth Master looked at him in horror, but didn't realize that Lan Jizhong, a refined scholar, could do such a thing.

"Next time, there are not many Westerners on the sea, and there are plenty of pirates." Nian Gengyao said: "And they are all strong laborers."

"Westerners are better. Pirates would not care about those equipment." Lan Jizhong had already started to figure out how to capture captives to mine gold mines.

Open-pit gold mines must have a lot of output.

As for the gold that Fourteenth Lord and the others took away, it doesn't matter. They have strong soldiers and horses. If they come to do a favor, they must give something in return.

But what's left is his.

Nian Gengyao said to him, "You can mine gold and buy firearms from us."

Anyway, it's a pity to lose those things. It's better not to exchange them for gold and support the Firearms Bureau of the Ministry of War.

The arrival of Wu Ali and the others has reorganized Yelin Village on Coconut Grove Island. They have ready-made houses and fields here, and they can also build boats and fish.

It's a great place.

After the old village chief A-Gump knew that someone was coming here, he brought those women and children and came back again!

"We can't do without here, and we are not happy on the big island." The old village head A-Gump said: "There are the tombs of our relatives here, we guard here, those women have no husbands, and the people here have no husbands." Daughter-in-law, it is better to reorganize the family to live."

The old man thinks very openly, and has no idea of ​​"not remarrying". The coastal areas are relatively open.

"You can adopt children if you want." There are more than a dozen children, big and small, and many of them are still in their infancy.

"Okay." The Fourteenth Master personally took the old village chief to meet Wu Ali and the others, but they did not object. It is of course a good thing to have locals.

It happened that the old village chief A-Gump had no children, and Wu Ahli, the village chief there, was only in his twenties. By the way, the village head of Yelin Village is still succeeded by this man named Su Wenshu.

The people in the two villages are the survivors of the catastrophe, but they cherish the life in front of them.

The fourteenth master was soft-hearted, and left enough food, condiments, boats and other things, including a lot of cloth and salt, so that they could live in peace.

Throwing the gold mine to Lan Jizhong, the Fourteenth Master wanted to take people back first. There is so much gold on board, but we can't afford to delay. To avoid long nights and dreams, let's go back first.

In the end, after Wu Ali and the others settled down on Coconut Grove Island, Wu Ali came over and said, "Caomin has something important to tell you."

Wu Ali still doesn't know how noble the prince is, but only knows that the village head is not as big as him.

The people under him, the old village head, are all in awe.

The old village head of A-Gump is still the head of the village. Everyone listens to the old man's words and gets along well with the navy.